Western Europe category: 1822 books

This eBook edition of "History of the WW1" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book is a complete six-volume history of the First World War, written during the war by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle interviewed army generals,...

Courtly love is a medieval literary concept of love emphasizing nobility and chivalry. Stories of noble knights riding off on adventure for the love of a fair lady abound in the Middle Ages. "Love and Romance in the Middle Ages" captures the stories of courtly love, noble knights and fair maidens....

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. CHAPTER II. THE BOHEMIAN REVOLUTION. CHAPTER III. IMPERIALIST VICTORIES IN BOHEMIA AND THE PALATINATE ... CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH OF...

The varying fortunes of the obstinate and fiercely contested struggles with the Dutch for maritime and commercial supremacy in the days of the Commonwealth and the Restoration are familiar to all readers of English history, and especially of English naval history. Never did English seamen fight better...

In order to “show the gents of Moulins, of Paris and elsewhere, just what a sharecropper’s life is like,” Emile Guillaumin, under the guise of fiction, wrote this story of “Tiennon,” a French peasant born fifty years before him in 1823. A peasant himself, Guillaumin was unique in that, after...

A Story of the Days of Nelson

This is a story about a surprise attack by the Spanish army on Sluis, a small city in a southern coastal province of The Low Countries, now known as The Netherlands.During the early 1500’s, the Reformation spread through the Low Countries. Emperor Charles V tried to stop this threat to Roman Catholicism...

The ring of fortifications protecting the city of Verdun on the Meuse River would become critical in the infamous battle of World War I. This book examines these fortifications, including the famous forts of Douaumont and Vaux that saw some of the fiercest fighting during the battle.

This guide offers you an overview of the turbulent history of Rotterdam, birthplace of Erasmus, residence of Willem van Oranje and source of income for many ship-owners and harbor masters. Glory days alternated with dark days, such as the bombing of May 14, 1940. The clearing of the first ruins became...

Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE (1860-1946) was a British military historian. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering. Occasionally his interpretations have been challenged, especially his widely copied thesis that...

After guiding his country with a sure and confident hand through the darkest times of World War II, Winston Churchill was defeated in the General Election of 1945—once again becoming Prime Minister in 1951. This collection features Churchill’s speeches, addresses, and other public communications...

In 1903, Winston Churchill was at the cusp of a brilliant political career--a newly elected Parliament member with a brash, aggressive style of oration and passionate political convictions. During this time, John Brodrick, the Secretary of State for War, proposed an expansion of Britain's peacetime...

This collection of speeches cover the period from 1951 to 1952, when Churchill once again stepped into the role of Prime Minister after his defeat in the General Election of 1945. During his first premiership, Churchill had been a renowned wartime leader. In his second, Churchill’s clear priority...

For Free Trade was a political pamphlet originally published in 1906--and one of Winston Churchill's rarest works. Throughout his career--as both a Conservative and a Liberal--Winston Churchill was a strong supporter of free trade. As a Conservative, this position was sometimes controversial;...